Australia, Oct. 14 -- A man who was wrongfully jailed for 19 years over the murder of a senior Australian policeman has received $7 million in compensation.

David Eastman received a life term in 1995 for the killing six years earlier of Colin Winchester, an Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner.

He was later freed after a court ruled he had had an unfair trial. He was acquitted in a second trial last year. However, Winchester's murder remains unsolved. His killing rocked the legal and political establishment and sparked one of the nation's largest-ever criminal investigations.

Eastman, 74, had earlier rejected $3.8 million compensation offer from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government.

In earlier hearings, the AC...